Maruk:I am not sure this was already discussed in the open somewhere but there is one massive change being done under the hood of Arma 3: migration from PhysX 2.x to PhysX 3..X . This may sound trivial but in reality it is basically switching to completely new physical simulation system with all consequences (a lot of work lost, delay of the entire development schedule). But we decided to make this transition, otherwise Arma 3 would be locked to PhysX 2.x for long time. It was basically now or never for the game...

The transition phase is on-going and neither PhysX 2 nor PX 3 branch are really tuned or polished at the moment.

Also, physical libraries only do part of what is needed and in no way guarantee that everything is going to react as it should: a lot of work on simulation, tweaking, testing, tweaking, AI routines, tweaking, fixing, testing is required with any type of physical simulation and in case of game this complex it really takes a lot of time and effort.

This kind of wise dev decissions deserve to be posted so a delay is more eaily explained 2012-06-06 16:40 Posted by SGT.cz90-CZ

Nice to see old faces are still alive and kicking. Thanks for the vids Krazi.

SGT

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The Gamespot Live Cam Tour visitted the Arma 3 bunker on the E3 2012 and sat down with Ivan Buchta to view some contents of what Arma 3 has to offer.
We made up a list of things mentioned during the presentation:

A kind female wants the Gamespot reporter to come back ina few hours (she tries this every year)

Community Alpha has been postponed:

The game physics need to be improved and until they have been improved they will delay the Community Alpha.

There will be some kind of mod/addon manager implemantation/integration

Some footage of the User Interface and Inventory screen

Some underwater footage

Performance of the presentation version looks to be very smooth

Physics do indeed not look finsihed when watching a vehicle tumble down hill

Improved reload animation

Improved steering, hands move with the wheel

You can disarm sea mines

Camp Maxwell

Offers different mission selections

Offers different practise areas like shooting ranges etc

Character control seems to be very smooth

Ivan Buchta likes DayZ..... a lot!

Jay Crowe (in the background) emphasizes how much Ivan likes the new chemlights.

The first video of the E3 Arma 3 presentation by Gamespot is kindly provided by KrAziKilla:

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